Americans are to blame for some illegal immigrants becoming serial crooks because “they’re picking up those bad habits of cheating, of drinking and drugs,” according to an official of a prominent Latino advocacy organization.
Jesse Diaz of the League of United Latin American Citizens made the claim on Monday during an interview on Dallas talk radio station KRLD, and then repeated them on Tuesday to WFAA-TV.
Diaz was discussing a federal study of 100 illegal immigrants with arrest records. The study found they had each been arrested and released six times on average.
When questioned about how living in America is responsible for them becoming serial lawbreakers, Diaz stood by his remarks, arguing that conservative Catholic values learned in Mexico start to break down once immigrants are in the U.S.
Diaz pointed to an increase in teen pregnancies and broken homes in the immigrant community and also blasted the wearing of baggy pants.
http://inverted-world.com/index.php/news/news/america_to_blame_for_illegal_aliens_turning_to_crime_latino_advocate_says/So i guess americans are so lawless and corrupt this is why this happens:
CHULA VISTA, Calif. - A border city that has long watched illegal immigrants pass through on their way to low-wage jobs up north is increasingly welcoming a very different kind of arrival: wealthy Mexicans seeking refuge from kidnappings and other violence.
Francisco Villegas Peralta is among the new residents of Chula Vista, where new boulevards run past gated communities and trendy malls.
He said he knew he had to get out of Tijuana, Mexico, one July morning when three SUVs trailed him from his house through Tijuana’s streets. He escaped, and moved soon after with his wife and three children to a one-story house in one of this city’s more modest neighborhoods.
“I feel a sense of relief as soon as I cross the border,” his wife, Lorena Flores, said in the living room of their sparsely furnished home, which the couple bought for $585,000. She rarely visits Tijuana; Villegas drives there daily to check on his five restaurants.
The lawlessness along the border prompted Mexico’s new president to send troops to disarm local police in Tijuana last week. Some officers are suspected of being in cahoots with drug smugglers.
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The well-to-do newcomers cross the border legally, using green cards, investor visas or temporary permits for shopping trips or other short visits.
Juan Jose Plascencia, whose family owns upscale Tijuana restaurants, moved to Chula Vista two years ago and opened his first U.S. restaurant in May.
“People feel at home here,” said Plascencia, ticking off the names of other new restaurants whose owners have left Tijuana. “First, people rent. If they like it, they buy.”
Kidnappings-for-ransom in the last year or two appear to have fueled the northward push.
Josie Ortiz, a real estate broker who works in Chula Vista, sold about 20 homes last year to Tijuana residents, up from about 10 in previous years. One was a food distributor who moved here after a Mexican police investigator said his name appeared on a kidnapper’s list of potential targets. Another was a Tijuana restaurant owner who got a call from a stranger who said, “We’re after you.”
One homemaker, who asked not to be identified because she fears for her safety, said she moved to Chula Vista last month with her husband and 4-month-old girl after two friends were taken from their home as they prepared for work one morning. They were released within two months after paying ransom.
“If you live and work in Tijuana, the kidnappers will study you, see your patterns, try to figure out your routine,” said Jorge Ahuage, another broker who caters to wealthy Mexicans seeking U.S. homes.
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